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From: Samuel Hornus <samuel.hornus@inria.fr>
To: Gabriel Cardoso <gcardoso.w@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Problem with Arg.Tuple
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:21:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CB3DD35B-AFFA-47BF-BC95-F2C02F97CD1C@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADSDpiofjUCP_K3n6XHqHR02UcXCLooKNgsG6fKsqEvyZUfJsg@mail.gmail.com>


On Mar13, 2012, at 11:49 , Gabriel Cardoso wrote:

> Dear list, 
> 
> I have empty arguments when using Arg.Tuple with references. This minimalist example illustrates my problem :
> 
> let f a b =
>  print_endline a;
>  print_endline b
> 
> let s = ref ""
> 
> let speclist = [(
>  "-a",
>  Arg.Tuple [
>    Arg.Set_string s;
>    Arg.String (f !s) (* !s is empty !!! *)

Here, the value of !s is empty when the (f !s) is evaluated…
you shoud pass the whole reference as argument :
Arg.String(f s)
and 
let f a b = print_endline !a; print_endline b

>    (* Arg.String (fun ss -> f !s ss) (\* Works just fine ... why ? *\) *)

why ? because the !s is evaluated only later, when the anonymous function (fun ss ->…) is applied.
-- 
Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13 10:49 Gabriel Cardoso
2012-03-13 11:21 ` Samuel Hornus [this message]
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2012-03-13 12:23   ` Gabriel Cardoso

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